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...Mustang or a '99 Honda GSR motorcycle, the posturing of the too-cool motorhead trying to goose a few more horsepower out of his engine while at the same time look bitchin' in front of a crowd of slightly younger female spectators is identical, whether you are in Bakersfield or Bangkok...
...last Ice Age, part of a family of trees that has endured fires, earthquakes, storms and every change of political leadership since human history began. "I am not a tree hugger, but these sequoias evoke an almost religious feeling in me," says Joe Fontaine, 67, a retired schoolteacher from Bakersfield who has campaigned for 40 years to stop logging near the sequoias. Sequoias themselves are too brittle for timber yards, but if trees all around them are logged, their shallow roots often fail to hold them in the ground. "People look at their own lifetime, with a beginning...
...decked out as always in his trademark '50s-style embroidered jacket, skin-tight faded jeans, cowboy boys and cowboy hat-still offers a maverick interpretation of country music that pushes the genre to evolve beyond its established heritage. Particularly notable is "The Sad Side of Town," co-written with Bakersfield hit-maker Buck Owens with whom Yoakam sang on his 1988 No. 1 hit, "Streets of Bakersfield." And the momentous accordion passage of "Alright, I'm Wrong" sweetly complements Yoakam's sinuous croon. B -Yan Fang...
...rights at all, they must have got them cheap, because none of the tunes are particularly well known. For the seeker of hidden Jones gems, of course, this is catnip. And there are several, including this treasure. Recorded in 1961, it was written by Dallas Frazier, the Bakersfield cotton picker turned songwriter ("There Goes My Everything," "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp") who is one of Jones' favorites. (Later in the '60s he would record an album of Frazier tunes...
...Some Gore-bashers are more concerned about the fact that the vice president's "reinventing government" program had helped Occidental in 1997 become the beneficiary of the largest-ever American privatization of an oilfield, when it purchased 78 percent of the Elk Hills oilfield near Bakersfield, Calif. Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy says the vice president never specifically pushed for the sale of Elk Hills or made any effort to profit from it. But in 1995 Gore had indeed called specifically for the privatization of Elk Hills, which had been the Navy's strategic reserve, arguing it was no longer needed...